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Baer, Herbert L.; France, Virginia G.; Moser, James T.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-01)

This paper develops a model which explains how the creation of a futures clearinghouse allows traders to reduce default and economize on margin. We contrast the collateral necessary between bilateral partners with that ...

Sanders, Dwight R.; Irwin, Scott H.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-06)

Theoretical noise trader models suggest that uninformed traders can impact market prices. However, these models conclusions depend crucially on the assumed specification for noise trader demand. This research seeks to ...

Ditsch, Mark; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-08)

The lean hog futures contract is replacing the live hog futures contract at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange beginning with the February 1997 contract. The lean hog futures will be cash settled based on a broad-based lean ...

Tirupattur, Viswanath; Hauser, Robert J.; Chaherli, Nabil M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-12)

The use of crop yield futures contracts is examined. The expectation being modeled here reflects that of an Illinois corn and soybeans producer at planting, of revenue realized at harvest. The effects of using price and ...

Zanini, Fabio; Garcia, Philip(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997)

The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast
techniques in the live hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive
relative to a cash-only ...

Zulauf, Carl R.; Irwin, Scott H.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-10)

Recent changes in farm policy have renewed interest in using marketing strategies based on futures and options markets to enhance the income of field crop producers. This article reviews the literature surrounding the ...

Kim, Min-Kyoung; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-11)

The distributional behavior for futures price spread changes is examined through parametric and nonparametric tests on four different commodities: corn and live cattle, and gold and T-bonds with two different sample sizes. ...

Bera, Anil K.; Garcia, Philip; Roh, Jae Sun(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-12)

This paper deals with the estimation of optimal hedge ratios. A number of recent papers have
demonstrated that the ordinary least squares (OLS) method which gives constant hedge ratio is
inappropriate and recommended the ...

Park, Hun Y.; Sarkar, Asani; Wu, Lifan(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-01)

In the context of futures markets, we study whether brokers allocate more favorable trades
to their own accounts, and less favorable trades to their customers. We find that, within a thirty
minute trading bracket, brokers ...

Noussinov, Mikhail A.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-04)

Multiproduct optimal hedging is compared to alternative hedging strategies as applied to
a Midwestern cattle feeder. One-period feeding margin hedge ratios are estimated using
weekly cash and futures price data from a ...

Sanders, Dwight R.; Garcia, Philip; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-05)

The statistical forecasting efficiency of new crop corn and soybean futures is the topic of frequent academic inquiry. However, few studies address the usefulness of these forecasts to economic agents’ decision making. ...

Manfredo, Mark R.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-05)

Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain
amount in a given time period due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of
confidence. Value-at-Risk has received ...

Wei, Anning; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-05)

Price series that are 21.5 years long for six agricultural futures markets, corn, soybeans, wheat, hogs, coffee and sugar, possess characteristics consistent with nonlinear dynamics. Three nonlinear models, ARCH, long ...

Chapman, David A.; Pearson, Neil D.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-06-16)

Virtually all existing continuous-time, single-factor term structure models are based on a short rate process that has a linear drift function. However, there is no strong a priori argument in favor of linearity, and Stanton ...

Chapman, David A.; Long, John B., Jr.; Pearson, Neil D.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-09-23)

The dynamics of the unobservable “short” or “instantaneous” rate of interest are frequently estimated using a proxy variable. We show the biases resulting from this practice (the “proxy” problem) are related to the derivatives ...

Ju, Xiongwei; Pearson, Neil D.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-10)

We study a source of bias in value-at-risk estimates that has not previously been recognized.
Because value-at-risk estimates are based on past data, a trader will often have a good
understanding of the errors in the ...

Pennings, Joost M.E.; Meulenberg, M.T.G.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-05)

With a constant new stream of financial services coming to the market, each often more
exotic and complicated than the last, the financial services industry, which includes
commodity derivatives exchanges, brokerage ...

Pennings, M.E.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-05)

Futures exchanges are in constant search of futures contracts that will generate a
profitable level of trading volume. In this context, it would be interesting to determine what
effect the introduction of new futures ...

Pennings, Joost M.E.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-05)

We propose a development process of commodity futures contracts in which the decisions and wishes of potential customers are investigated simultaneously with the necessary technical properties that need to be met for trading ...

Manfredo, Mark R.; Leuthold, Raymond M.(Office for Futures and Options Research, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-08)

Value-at-Risk, known as VaR, gives a prediction of potential portfolio losses, with a certain level
of confidence, that may be encountered over a specified time period due to adverse price
movements in the portfolio’s ...